Brachytherapy using removable episcleral plaques containing sealed radioisotope sources is being studied as an alternative to enucleation in the treatment of choroidal melanoma and other tumors of the eye. Encouraging early results have been reported, but late complications which lead to loss of vision continue to be a problem. A randomized national study, the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Stud...

Cervical Carotid Imaging With a ContinuousWave Doppler Flowmeter • A noninvasive technique for carotid arteriography using an ultrasonic directional Doppler flowmeter to image the carotid bifurcations is described. The technique uses a position sensing arm to hold the sharply focusing probe and translates the position of arterial flow onto an image storage screen. By multiple manual sweeps acro...

EPITHELIUM-FIBRE CELL COUPLING IN THE EYE LENS PRESCOTT, A.R., DAHM. R.. HUTCHESON, A.M., QUIN!-AN. R.A., VANMARLE. J.‘, & VRENSEN. G§. Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, Dundee, DDl 4HN. Scotland. * Department of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Morp...

EPITHELIUM-FIBRE CELL COUPLING IN THE EYE LENS PRESCOTT, A.R., DAHM. R.. HUTCHESON, A.M., QUIN!-AN. R.A., VANMARLE. J.‘, & VRENSEN. G§. Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, Dundee, DDl 4HN. Scotland. * Department of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Morp...

PURPOSE To test the hypotheses that atherosclerosis and elevated serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are risk factors for open-angle glaucoma (OAG). METHODS In a prospective, population-based cohort study, all participants 55 years and older and at risk for incident OAG underwent, at baseline (1990-1993) and at follow-up (1997-1999), the same ophthalmic examination, including visual field t...

EPITHELIUM-FIBRE CELL COUPLING IN THE EYE LENS PRESCOTT, A.R., DAHM. R.. HUTCHESON, A.M., QUIN!-AN. R.A., VANMARLE. J.‘, & VRENSEN. G§. Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Medical Sciences Institute, Dundee, DDl 4HN. Scotland. * Department of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 5 Department of Morp...

ophthalmia neonatorum is generally defined as conjunctivitis occurring within one month of life. the sources of this infection are environmental organisms or the organisms colonized in the birth canal. untreated infection can cause blindness, especially if the corresponding organisms areneisseria gonorrhoeae, or chlamydia trachomatis. povidone-iodine ophthalmic solution is an effective antibact...

background and objective: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the most sensitive technique to detect multiple sclerosis (ms) plaques in central nervous system. in some cases, the patients who were suspected to ms, whereas mri images are normal, but whether patients don’t have ms plaques or mri images are not enough optimized enough in order to show ms plaques? the aim of the current study is ev...